The New York Times21d
Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...
MIT Technology Review22d
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects ... separate surfaces with different curvatures. The outer section, 8.4 meters wide, captures light from the universe and reflects it onto ...
The Indian Express22d
Why scientists are installing underwater telescopes to detect ‘ghost particles’
Scientists are deploying two telescopes to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles, under the Mediterranean Sea. The two telescopes are part of the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino ...
Phys.org26d
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here's what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 ...